Women in STEM
This physicist became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Sally Ride
She is our club advisor.
This law explains why you launch forward when sitting in a car that suddenly stops.
Newton’s First Law of Motion (or inertia)
This is the solution for x in the equation 3x + 7=25.
x = 6
This substance, which is neither basic nor acidic, has a pH of 7.
Water
This Polish-born scientist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win Nobels in two different sciences.
Marie Curie
This member of the board memorized every IKEA product when they were in 7th grade.
Adelyne
This gas makes up 78% of the air we breathe, making it the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.
Nitrogen.
You buy two movie tickets and popcorn for $23. Each ticket costs $9. This is how much the popcorn costs.
$5
The number of states that touch the Pacific Ocean.
Five
This mathematician is credited with writing the first computer algorithm—long before modern computers existed.
Ada Lovelace
This member of the board has been pescetarian since birth.
Mayari
This part of your body is responsible for producing insulin, a hormone regulating blood sugar levels.
Pancreas
A function doubles every input, then subtracts 4. This is the output when the input is 7.
10
This famous primatologist had her love of animals inspired by a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee.
Jane Goodall
This former Silicon Valley biotech CEO became infamous after her company Theranos promoted blood-testing technology that didn't work. Her rise and fall later inspired the Hulu miniseries The Dropout.
Elizabeth Holmes
This member of the board is hypermobile, meaning they have joints that can move beyond the average range.
Rachel
When your hair stands up after taking off a hat or rubbing a balloon on it, this phenomenon is what is happening.
A ladder leans against a wall making a 30∘degree angle with the ground and reaches 10 feet up the wall. This is the length of the ladder.
20 feet
This sticky, natural substance never goes bad, even after thousands of years.
Honey
This cybersecurity expert served as CEO of Yahoo from 2012–2017 and was previously a key executive at Google.
Marissa Mayer
This board member once met Milo Manheim at the airport.
Cat
When you stir sugar into tea, the sweet taste spreads out throughout the liquid. This process spreading the sugar molecules from a concentrated area to the rest of the tea is called what?
Diffusion
For the system
x + ky = 2
2x + 4y = 5
this value of k makes the system have no solution.
k = 2
Known as the "human computer," this NASA mathematician helped astronauts safely get to the moon
Katherine Johnson